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...agency to presidential authority, evidence of a CIA assassination plot would seem to implicate one President or the other, even both, unless, of course, the CIA had become a law unto itself. What the Rockefeller commission report revealed was "in all likelihood just the tip of the iceberg," according to Church. The real likelihood is that so far as the actual assassinations are concerned, there was never much more to this floating body than a deceptively shimmering tip. Castro, however, was another matter. The agency version of the charges is this...
...unlikely to be satisfied that the entire record has been laid bare until after the Senate committee finishes investigating the CIA later this year. The chairman of the Senate probe, Democrat Frank Church of Idaho, declared that the Rockefeller commission report "may represent just the tip of the iceberg." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called the report "good but not complete." In particular, the Democrats were disappointed that Ford had not released 85 pages of the original report that dealt with charges of CIA involvement in assassination plots against foreign leaders. Ford explained that the investigation of assassination plots, which...
...luck has something to do with it), which gets lost somewhere around South America. Water and supplies are necessary - this is 1916, and subs are not capable of stay ing under for months. Bowen, searching for this sustenance, pilots the ship through a hole in an iceberg. No one can believe what is on the other side...
...Watergate is just the tip of the iceberg of America's language, according to Newman. In addition to all of its other implications, Watergate also "revealed the sad state of language,"from the president on down, through Ehrlichman and Haldeman,through Ron Ziegler, through the press with its acceptance of euphemistic explanations from government officials, through the political candidates with their sterile, ingratiating speeches, through the social scientists with their unwieldy terminology,through the ad men with their ready, mindless sales pitches, right down to the proffessional athletes with their trugid comments, to the small restaurants using foreign names...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICS: It is very easy to play with numbers as Ferrara has proven. He uses numbers of a national survey to account for a problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table...